From: "Montreal History and Gazeteer to the year 1892"By Rev. J. Douglas Borthwick, John Lovell & Son, Montreal 1892

Was born near London, England, in 1827. At fifteen he was employed by
the South Western Railway Company, and remained
for ten years with them--gaining in that time different positions, and
lastly that of Assistant Secretary. In 1851, he was appointed Managing
Director of the Great Western Railway of Canada,
and in the same year he arrived in Canada and established himself at Hamilton
in the interests of this line. In 1861, he received a public banquet
at Hamilton for his services to the country, when he was presented with
a. service of plate made by Tiffany, of New York, and costing $3,000.
At this time he joined the Grand Trunk Railway,
where he continued for many years as its efficient Managing Director.
Afterwards he had Government control of the Intercolonial,
and latterly was agent for the Hudson Bay Company
in Winnipeg, where he died some years ago.

Mr. Brydges was intimately connected with the English
Diocese of Montreal, of which he was for years the Treasurer, and
his decisions in the Synod were generally followed by both clerical and
lay members.